tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439168179960787195.post6805819346275512151..comments2024-03-28T17:13:01.117+10:00Comments on Condensed concepts: Scientific misnomers?Ross H. McKenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09950455939572097456noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439168179960787195.post-38231282220224005372011-09-08T10:35:04.083+10:002011-09-08T10:35:04.083+10:00In grad school, I once read a paper that referred ...In grad school, I once read a paper that referred to the "Ruderman-Kittel-(Kasuya)-Yoshida interaction." My advisor and I wondered what Kasuya had done in the authors' eyes to warrant textual demotion.W. Brian Lanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06989129028140870142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439168179960787195.post-77629351021888007032011-09-07T23:07:22.181+10:002011-09-07T23:07:22.181+10:00There's an interesting article in Nature Physi...There's an interesting article in Nature Physics this month about Hubble's constant and the related theoretical work by French physicist Georges Lemaître that preceded it. Nobody calls it "Lemaître's constant," but it appears that perhaps we ought to.<br /><br />http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v7/n9/full/nphys2082.htmlKyle M. Douglasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12324489839980905992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439168179960787195.post-28379039384117276552011-09-07T22:58:51.111+10:002011-09-07T22:58:51.111+10:00Fermi's golden rule is probably another good e...Fermi's golden rule is probably another good example of this...although, I think it may have been Fermi that referred to it as a "golden rule". My PhD advisor (John Light) at Chicago mentioned a funny story once from a seminar back in the 60's. The speaker (who may well have been Light at his job interview) was discussing some semiclassical approximations and the WKB approximation. An older professor interrupted and said in a German accent "That's MY approximation!"... The speaker continued to talk about Fermi's golden rule...another interruption: "That's MY golden rule!" <br /><br />Apparently Wentzel felt slighted that Fermi's GR was not the Wentzel Golden Rule and WKB wasn't JUST the Wentzel approximation.Eric Bittnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15674319839390669479noreply@blogger.com